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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: t i i `Be it known that I, VINCENT FOUNTAIN, Jr., of Castleton, Richmond county, New `York, have invented, p i l: made, aud applied to use anew` and useful PotatoA Masher 4and Ido declare the following `to be a full, clean," and correct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speeif'4 iication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in whiclit Figure 1, a front view of my improved potato masher. Figure 2, a sectional view ofthe same. Figure 3, an end view of the same. i In the drawings like parts of theinvention are pointed out by the same letters of reference.

vThe natu-re of `my invention consists in the constructign and operation of a potato masher, as more fully v hereinafter set forth, to enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same. y t p A shows a tubular receptacle in which the potatoes to be mashed are placed.' This receptaclemay bemade of tin or. any suitable material, and is provided with the ears, a, to hold the removable bottom, B, in position. i B shows the bottom formed of a. ring made from metal or otherl suitable material, and a bottom formed of `wire i cloth or any proper material. This bottom, B, is provided with pins, b, which, when` the bottom is `placedupon` H the lower end of the receptacle, A, t snugly beneaththe ears, a, thus retaining the bottom,-B, in position. G p shows the masher formed of hard wood, and in construction like unto the masher usually employed. This masher` i l is made suiliciently large `to lit nicely into receptacle, A, and yet be freely moved within the same. vMy improved masher being thus constructed, the potatoes to' be mashed are placed in the receptacle, A, and the masher, C,` is1 moved freely up and down `within the same, and the potatoes are thus mashed, the water lfrom `the same, passing o' through the wire bottom, B. When desired to remove the potatoes, the bottom, B, is removed from the receptacle,l A, and the potatoes maybe pressed out' of the receptacle, A.

Having thus described my invention, what I` claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I olaimras a new article of manufacture, a potato masher, constructed as described, to wit, the cylinderor tubular receptacle A, provided with the detachable perforated bottom B, and handles, one on each side, and the plunger C, all as shown and set forth.

` `VINCENT FOUNTAIN, Jn.

Witnesses:

A. SIDNEY DoANE. p p R. TURNER.V 

